NFTs are coming to Europe’s largest modern art museum.

The ‘Centre Pompidou,’ Europe’s largest modern art museum, just announced a new exhibition.

The subject: NFTs.

The exhibition will examine the relationship between art and the blockchain, featuring NFTs from the Cryptopunks and Autoglyphs projects, and 16 other NFT works from various digital artists.

CryptoPunk #110 and Autoglyph #25 were both donated to Centre Pompidou and will be displayed during the exhibition.

This is cool for a few reasons:

1. It further legitimizes NFTs and their place in art and culture.

   (They’ll be displayed next to other pieces in the Centre Pompidou’s collection by Kandinsky, Chagall, Matisse, and Frida Kahlo).

2. Yuga Labs, which owns the CryptoPunks IP, donated the NFT to the museum through its Punks Legacy Project.

   Chances are, the Centre Pompidou will hold them for many years to come, and maybe even build out their collection to own even more culturally significant NFTs.

3. It may not be obvious at first, but exhibitions like this further normalize collecting NFTs. With every contemporary gallery that exhibits NFTs, it makes people even more familiar with them.

Small progress = a big win for NFTs and Web3.